Sharing the volunteering experience with IsraAid in Greece December 2015. In this blog I will express my ideas, thoughts and opinions of what I witness.

יום שישי, 1 בינואר 2016

A special guy

A special guy

I would like to tell you about a special man that I had the
honor to volunteer with, a man to contrast all stereotypes and against all
conventions. A man who makes me believe there is true hope for us Jews and
Arabs living together. This man, Ali, is an Ambulance medic in the Israeli
company Red David Shield in Israel. He is Arab, Muslim, Bedouin and Israeli. He
always wore the IsraAid shirt so proud and every time he spoke to new refugees
comers in his wonderful Arabic when asked he said: I am Arab, I am an Israeli
Arab. He has saved babies lives, saved women’s lives. I was with him everyday
all day and filmed him and took pictures of him and listened to his stories.

I had
breakfast, lunch and dinner with him and I still can’t still can't believe my good
fortune to be around this special leader. He is the first to come to the
séance, the first to carry the children to safe place. The first to rush the
wounded to the infirmary. Today, something extraordinary happened in the camp.
After brining three children to the infirmary a Norwegian medic came to me and
told me: “I want to volunteer for IsraAid. I want to be one of yours. Can you
please find me a shirt with the flag of Israel? Can you give me your
organization's number? You Israelis are the best team here.” As I write these
lines I cannot fully acknowledge the change we made here, the impact of what
this work means to people. It makes me so proud of my country Israel and so
proud to be Jewish and honored to be able to co-volunteer like the legendary
Ali.

If it wasn’t for IsraAID I could
have never have made so much peace and seen the possibilities for coexistence
and friendship across boundaries in the Middle East. Thank you IsraAID for
giving me this amazing opportunity to help others in need. To cross cultures
and to bridge differences and get to know so many wonderful people will surely
make this world a better place.